The History of Trade Unionism
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher : London, New York, Longmans, Green
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher : London, New York, Longmans, Green
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
Author : Malcolm Chase
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351942298
Once the heartland of British labour history, trade unionism has been marginalised in much recent scholarship. In a critical survey from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, this book argues for its reinstatement. Trade unionism is shown to be both intrinsically important and to provide a window onto the broader historical landscape; the evolution of trade union principles and practices is traced from the seventeenth century to mid-Victorian times. Underpinning this survey is an explanation of labour organisation that reaches back to the fourteenth century. Throughout, the emphasis is on trade union mentality and ideology, rather than on institutional history. There is a critical focus on the politics of gender, on the demarcation of skill and on the role of the state in labour issues. New insight is provided on the long-debated question of trade unions’ contribution to social and political unrest from the era of the French Revolution through to Chartism.
Author : Dr Peter Dorey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1409480283
For most of the twentieth century, the Conservative Party engaged in an ongoing struggle to curb the power of the trade unions, culminating in the radical legislation of the Thatcher governments. Yet, as this book shows, for a brief period between the end of the Second World War and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964, the Conservative Party adopted a remarkably constructive and conciliatory approach to the trade unions, dubbed 'voluntarism'. During this time the party leadership made strenuous efforts to avoid, as far as was politically possible, confrontation with, or legislation against, the trade unions, even when this incurred the wrath of some Conservative backbenchers and the Party's mass membership. In explaining why the Conservative leadership sought to avoid conflict with the trade unions, this study considers the economic circumstances of the period in question, the political environment, electoral considerations, the perspective adopted by the Conservative leadership in comprehending industrial relations and explaining conflict in the workplace, and the personalities of both the Conservative leadership and the key figures in the trade unions. Making extensive use of primary and archival sources it explains why the 1945-64 period was unique in the Conservative Party's approach to Britain's trade unions. By 1964, though, even hitherto Conservative defenders of voluntarism were acknowledging that some form of official inquiry into the conduct and operation of trade British unionism, as a prelude to legislation, was necessary, thereby signifying that the heyday of 'voluntarism' and cordial relations between senior Conservatives and the trade unions was coming to an end.
Author : Bob Smale
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1529204070
The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig economy this topical new book by Bob Smale reports up-to-date research on union identities and what he terms ‘niche unionism’, while raising critical questions for the future.
Author : Alastair J. Reid
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 13,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Looking both at individual workers and the organizations that represent them, Reid shows how unions have, throughout the modern era, been a crucial element in British life, and that all governments have had to develop policies to deal with them.
Author : Yangwen Zheng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9004175377
The Cold War stayed cold in Europe but it was hot in Asia. Its legacy lives on in the region. In none of the three dominant historiographical paradigms: orthodox, revisionist and post-revisionist, does Asia, or the rest of the Third World, figure with much significance. What happens to these narratives if we put them to the test in Asia? This volume argues that attention to what has been conventionally considered the periphery is essential to a full understanding of the global Cold War. Foregrounding Asia necessarily leads to a re-assessment of the dominant narratives. This volume also argues for a shift in focus from diplomacy and high politics alone towards research into the culture of the Cold War era and its public diplomacy. "As a whole, the essays contribute to enriching our understanding of what was really happening in an era that is too often understood in the catch-all framework of the Cold War." - Akira Iriye, "Harvard University"
Author : A.E. Musson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136614710
There is perhaps no area of British life where attitudes are more strongly influenced by shared traditions and past experiences than the trade union movement; the memory of the working-class movements is a long one. It is therefore all the more important in the light of recent events to examine the origins and development of trade-union organization over the decades if we are to understand the unions of today, which have emerged as one of the most crucial and strongest elements in the economy. This book is the product of twenty years’ detailed research and general reflection on the course of trade-union development, and ranges over the whole field of British trade-union history, from the early craft societies to the structure of modern trade unionism. It begins by illuminating the problems associated with researching and writing in this field, and goes on to trace the main trends of trade-union development, linking these with modern trade-union problems. Particular attention is paid to some of the important aspects of this history – the Owenite period, the so-called New Model unions, the origins of the Trades Union Congress, and more recent changes in trade-union organization. These themes are woven into a broad study which includes detailed investigation of individual trade unions (particularly the printing unions, and also an early employers association) with a general review of the whole movement. Trade-union history is closely bound up with social conditions, and Professor Musson also examines a number of such related aspects as the struggle for a free press, the origins of the co-operative movement and the early factory system. This classic book was first published in 1974.
Author : William Z. Foster
Publisher : New York : International Publishers
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,83 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Labor unions
ISBN :
Author : Michael Charney
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780942961096
An anthology of more than 60 articles documenting the history and the how-tos of social justice unionism. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities to defend and transform public education.
Author : Ralph Darlington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608463305
Traces the entwined international legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement. --From publisher description.